Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

Base price · 13-06-2016 09:26PM

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Rang a lad on done deal today, add was up about 4 days. Anyway he didn't pick up and rang me back shortly. When I enquired about what he had for sale....very indignantly he says "ah sure they sold the day I put up the add" and hung up on me, now tell me I'm good but Christ how was I to know they were sold. Why can't lads take down the add when sold and save us all the bother:mad::mad:

Chill out. Don't take it personally.
Not everyone is au fait with the internet. He maybe an older peron who relied on a neighbour to post the ad on Donedeal.
I have posted many ads on Donedeal for neighbours that wouldn't have a clue about the interweb

Farrell · 13-06-2016 09:35PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

How to fit a lot of wool into a smallish lorry

If you hung around you'd of seen them trying to squeeze more into a trailer
Plus good thing they got loaded before the rain

ganmo · 13-06-2016 09:35PM

we used to roll the fleeces very tight making the rope etc and you could fit some weight into a pack, about a third more than a loose roll...but its hard enough to keep up with the shearers now.

and once wool leaves the farmer's possession it falls under waste regulations so the truck probably serves 2 purposes

Mac Taylor · 13-06-2016 09:48PM

Base price wrote: »

Chill out. Don't take it personally.
Not everyone is au fait with the internet. He maybe an older peron who relied on a neighbour to post the ad on Donedeal.
I have posted many ads on Donedeal for neighbours that wouldn't have a clue about the interweb

Bp, I'm always chilled out:D .....until I get peed off:D ah look I understand just wasn't in the mood today.

Base price · 13-06-2016 09:50PM

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Bp, I'm always chilled out:D .....until I get peed off:D ah look I understand just wasn't in the mood today.

MickeyShtyles · 14-06-2016 09:46AM

Two nights ago we had a fox attack. Three hens taken and a rooster. This morning, went up to feed animals to find two piglets.

_Brian · 14-06-2016 09:54AM

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Two nights ago we had a fox attack. Three hens taken and a rooster. This morning, went up to feed animals to find two piglets.

That's the ying/yang of farming life just there.

_Brian · 14-06-2016 09:58AM

We got two rescue kittens for the girls, have them in the garage and they're settled well and nice wee things.

Only problem is now I think the youngest might be allergic, serious sneezing, stuffed nose and itchy eyes. She does get a bit of hayfeever but surely pollen would be low right now ??

Will be a serous disappointment if she has to restrict access or worse if they have to go

Buford T. Justice XIX · 14-06-2016 11:44AM

_Brian wrote: »

We got two rescue kittens for the girls, have them in the garage and they're settled well and nice wee things.

Only problem is now I think the youngest might be allergic, serious sneezing, stuffed nose and itchy eyes. She does get a bit of hayfeever but surely pollen would be low right now ??

Will be a serous disappointment if she has to restrict access or worse if they have to go

Pollen can be bad at times in the last few days.

Myself and the eldest lad suffer a bit from it but I find it worse after checking fences.

But I'm very sniffly today and you wouldn't imagine much pollen out with rain and clouds.

Base price · 14-06-2016 01:38PM

_Brian wrote: »

We got two rescue kittens for the girls, have them in the garage and they're settled well and nice wee things.

Only problem is now I think the youngest might be allergic, serious sneezing, stuffed nose and itchy eyes. She does get a bit of hayfeever but surely pollen would be low right now ??

Will be a serous disappointment if she has to restrict access or worse if they have to go

Hopefully she is not allergic to them.
http://www.met.ie/forecasts/pollen.asp

Odelay · 14-06-2016 05:04PM

_Brian wrote: »

We got two rescue kittens for the girls, have them in the garage and they're settled well and nice wee things.

Only problem is now I think the youngest might be allergic, serious sneezing, stuffed nose and itchy eyes. She does get a bit of hayfeever but surely pollen would be low right now ??

Will be a serous disappointment if she has to restrict access or worse if they have to go

I get hay fever, the summer snot fest has just started. Usually around this time, remember getting caught out with it badly during the leaving cert:(

I don't understand where it comes from, as I understand it was never heard of in my parents time. I was brought up on a farm too and four out the six of us raised there get hay fever.

laoch na mona · 14-06-2016 05:15PM

Odelay wrote: »

I don't understand where it comes from, as I understand it was never heard of in my parents time. I was brought up on a farm too and four out the six of us raised there get hay fever.

one of my fathers cousins has bad enough hay fever, has had it all his life and is into his 70s

pedigree 6 · 14-06-2016 06:47PM

Odelay wrote: »

I don't understand where it comes from, as I understand it was never heard of in my parents time. I was brought up on a farm too and four out the six of us raised there get hay fever.

I just wonder were your parents raised on milk from their own farm and your generation raised on pasteurised milk?

Odelay · 14-06-2016 07:23PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

I just wonder were your parents raised on milk from their own farm and your generation raised on pasteurised milk?

I'd say nail on the head there and my wise mother in her 70s would agree. While she did not know much about pasteurisation, she reckoned it was because we were drinking milk that was from any part of the country and not the locality. We had fresh milk collected in a can from a neighbour until I was five, then the neighbour retired and it was milk from them bag yokes and later cartons.

Username John · 14-06-2016 07:27PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

I just wonder were your parents raised on milk from their own farm and your generation raised on pasteurised milk?

I'm not sure that can be the reason for hay fever?

I know one person who would have had milk from the tank and who get a touch of hay fever...

But even if I didn't I'd still say the reason for hay fever is that you didn't drink milk from the tank is going a bit too far...

Kovu · 14-06-2016 07:32PM

I remember reading something about the correlation of increased hay fever symptoms and drinking raw milk. I think it was something about the levels of asthma were much lower in kids that had grown up on raw milk.
My father gets it very bad but I'd very rarely find it bothering me. Loads of my cousins have asthma though, but myself and my brother don't. I always put that down to growing up in a house with no central heating though, even now I'd find myself getting a cough or dry eyes if I was in a house with oil heating on all the time.

Username John · 14-06-2016 07:39PM

Kovu wrote: »

I remember reading something about the correlation of increased hay fever symptoms and drinking raw milk. I think it was something about the levels of asthma were much lower in kids that had grown up on raw milk.
My father gets it very bad but I'd very rarely find it bothering me. Loads of my cousins have asthma though, but myself and my brother don't. I always put that down to growing up in a house with no central heating though, even now I'd find myself getting a cough or dry eyes if I was in a house with oil heating on all the time.

But was it the raw milk? Or was it a country vs urban thing? Or like you say a central heating thing?

The only way to see would be through large statistical analysis I suppose, and I dunno if the data exists...

Kovu · 14-06-2016 07:45PM

It's a big thing in America to feed raw milk to kids if they have asthma. There are studies, one of which says

A recently published study of over 8,300 children in rural parts of continental Europe found a significant reduction in asthma development of 41% for raw milk drinkers. They were also half as likely to develop hay fever as those who drank shop bought or boiled milk. This research has linked the benefits to whey proteins in the milk which are destroyed in the process of pasteurisation (1).

but I'd take some of those statistics with a pinch of salt, a lot appear to be published with a singular aim in mind.

whelan2 · 14-06-2016 08:09PM

Come on Iceland

MickeyShtyles · 14-06-2016 08:34PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Come on Iceland

Tidy goal.

Base price · 14-06-2016 09:29PM

Kovu wrote: »

I remember reading something about the correlation of increased hay fever symptoms and drinking raw milk. I think it was something about the levels of asthma were much lower in kids that had grown up on raw milk.
My father gets it very bad but I'd very rarely find it bothering me. Loads of my cousins have asthma though, but myself and my brother don't. I always put that down to growing up in a house with no central heating though, even now I'd find myself getting a cough or dry eyes if I was in a house with oil heating on all the time.

My Mam is the same as you. When growing up the temperature in our house would be low in the Winter with the bedrooms just above freezing point

I hate it when a bedroom is warm and stuffy like they are in hotels.

Waffletraktor · 14-06-2016 09:31PM

Base price wrote: »

My Mam is the same as you. When growing up the temperature in our house would be low in the Winter with the bedrooms just above freezing point
I hate it when a bedroom is warm and stuffy like they are in hotels.

Have to have a window open to sleep regardless of the tempature.
Normally have 3 quilts during winter to make up for it

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Muckit · 14-06-2016 09:37PM

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Have to have a window open to sleep regardless of the tempature.
Normally have 3 quilts during winter to make up for it .

Quilts? What is it 1986?

Waffletraktor · 14-06-2016 09:39PM

Muckit wrote: »

Quilts? What is it 1986?

Duvets then.

Kevhog1988 · 14-06-2016 09:45PM

goats milk supposed to be very good for asthma

_Brian · 14-06-2016 09:49PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

I just wonder were your parents raised on milk from their own farm and your generation raised on pasteurised milk?

Absolutely, and increased antibiotic use in kids, over sterilisation of all surfaces where parents are afraid to let kids get a bit dirty.

_Brian · 14-06-2016 09:53PM

theemigrant wrote: »

goats milk supposed to be very good for asthma

Indeed, herself is a nutritionist and her take on that is that most people just get access to raw goats milk and the fact that it's not pasteurised is the key, she reckons raw cows milk would do the trick too.

My sister got a goat for milk and her sons asthma cleared up almost instantly. No more inhalers needed or anything, quite a result and the only work was someone had to hand milk the goat.

Base price · 14-06-2016 09:53PM

theemigrant wrote: »

goats milk supposed to be very good for asthma

My eldest brother suffered badly with asthma and eczema as a child. When visiting my grandparents every weekend we use to come home with 4 or 5 pints of goats milk for him.
I read somewhere that honey from local bees is also good.

rangler1 · 14-06-2016 10:05PM

_Brian wrote: »

Indeed, herself is a nutritionist and her take on that is that most people just get access to raw goats milk and the fact that it's not pasteurised is the key, she reckons raw cows milk would do the trick too.

My sister got a goat for milk and her sons asthma cleared up almost instantly. No more inhalers needed or anything, quite a result and the only work was someone had to hand milk the goat.

I always used to sustitute soya milk for cows milk when asthma would get bad...always improved it and easier sourced than a goat.

Base price · 14-06-2016 10:20PM

rangler1 wrote: »

I always used to sustitute soya milk for cows milk when asthma would get bad...always improved it and easier sourced than a goat.

No problem sourcing goats in Ireland

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